Frontiers, Borders and Gateways
Saint Louis University, 13-15 June 2022 

We hope that the conference will take place on site.
However, due to the global pandemic, the conference may be online.  

Organizers: Arline Cravens (Saint Louis University), Annie Smart (Saint Louis University)
Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri USA 

 

The conference theme, Frontiers, Borders and Gateways, is inspired by the event’s location and the unique history of St. Louis. St. Louis, Missouri – often called the “River City” or the “Gateway City” – sits along the west bank of the Mississippi River and served as the “Gateway to the West.”  St. Louis’s most distinctive monument, the Gateway Arch, commemorates the “great explorers, Lewis and Clark, and the hardy hunters, trappers, frontiersmen and pioneers who contributed to the territorial expansion and development of these United States,” in the words of the founding Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Association.  The Arch represents a portal, the gateway through which passed those travelling West in search of a new life and new frontiers – but it is also a reminder of those who suffered from the violence of migration in 19^th-century America.  St. Louis was also known as “Mound City,” due to the earthworks of the Mississippian civilization.  The “hardy pioneers” who settled in St. Louis destroyed the mounds, just as the native peoples were hunted down and displaced.  Cahokia Mounds, in nearby Cahokia, Illinois, bear witness to what was once a vibrant Native American culture.  As Sand states in La Mare au Diable, “Car, hélas! tout s’en va…”  

 

The 23^rd International George Sand Colloquium will explore the representation of new frontiers and borders in George Sand.  

 

We invite contributions on topics including but not limited to the following: 

 

Submissions for individual papers or sessions may be in French or English and should be in the form of an abstract (250-300 words). 

Deadline for submissions is 15 October 2021 

Conference website: https://www.gsc2022.com/

Decisions will be sent by 1 December 2021 

 

Frontières et Passerelles dans l’œuvre de George Sand 

Université de Saint Louis, 13-15 juin 2022 

Nous espérons que la conférence sera sur place. 
Mais, en raison de la crise sanitaire mondiale, la conférence pourrait être virtuelle. 

Organisation : Arline Cravens (Université de Saint Louis), Annie Smart (Université de Saint Louis)
Université de Saint Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, États-Unis. 

 

Le thème du colloque, Frontières et Passerelles, s’inspire du caractère unique de la ville de St. Louis qui lui vaut d’être associée aux notions de frontières et d’expansion, du fait de sa position géographique stratégique et de sa place unique dans l’histoire du territoire américain. Située sur le fleuve Mississippi, la ville de Saint Louis – souvent appelée « the River City » ou « the Gateway City » -- a servi de « porte à l’Ouest ».  Le monument le plus distinctif de Saint-Louis, la Gateway Arche commémore les « grands explorateurs, Lewis et Clark, les chasseurs, trappeurs, pionniers et pionnières qui ont contribué à l'expansion territoriale et au développement de ces États-Unis », pour reprendre les mots de l’association fondatrice : la Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Association.  L'Arche représente la porte d'entrée par laquelle passaient ceux qui voyageaient vers l'Ouest à la recherche d'une nouvelle vie et de nouvelles frontières, mais c'est aussi un rappel de ceux qui ont souffert de la violence des migrations dans l'Amérique du XIXe siècle.  Saint-Louis était également connu sous le nom de « Mound City », en raison des tertres ou tumulus en terre de la civilisation mississippienne.  Les « pionniers » qui s'installèrent à St. Louis détruisirent ces tertres, alors même que les peuples autochtones étaient pourchassés et déplacés.  Cahokia Mounds, dans la ville voisine de Cahokia en Illinois, témoigne de ce qui était autrefois une culture amérindienne bien vivante. Comme le dit Sand dans La Mare au Diable, « Car, hélas ! tout s'en va... »  

 

Le 23^e Colloque International George Sand aura pour but d’explorer la représentation de nouvelles frontières dans l’œuvre de George Sand. 

 

Nous invitons des contributions sur les thèmes suivants, ces suggestions n’étant cependant pas limitatives : 

 

Les propositions de communication (résumés de 250 à 300 mots en français ou en anglais) sont à rendre avant le 15 octobre 2021. 

Site web : https://www.gsc2022.com/

Le comité scientifique donnera ses réponses avant le 1^er décembre 2021.

Attached, please find the CFP for Christopher Newport University's Global Conference on Women and Gender to be held in March, 2022.

Community, Care and Crisis.pdf

Abstracts are due October 1st, 2021

Seeking panelists for “Emmelie Prophète, citadine port-au-princienne” panel chaired by Jocelyn Sutton Franklin and Nathan Dize.

To be held during the 20th & 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium at the University of Pittsburgh on March 24-26, 2022. 

The panel will focus on the writings of the Haitian writer Emmelie Prophète and her engagement with the city of Port-au-Prince as a critical point of departure. 

Depending on the level of interest in the topic, the chairs are open to shifting the panel to a “lightning talk” roundtable, where participants will address the topic of the panel in shorter 5-7 minute presentations. The aim of the panel is to draw attention to Prophète’s many works and to generate interest in the reading, teaching and study of her novels and poetry. 

If you are interested in contributing, please submit 1) a preliminary title for your presentation AND 2) a 50-100 word abstract of the works/angle you wish to explore.

Click here for the panel description.

If you are interested please send us an email to (nathan.dize@oberlin.edu) and/or (franklinja1@wofford.edu).

Click here for French CFP

Click here for English CFP

Deadline extended to Friday, October 1st.

https://www.frenchanditalian.pitt.edu/20th-21st-century-french-and-francophone-studies-international-colloquium

Roundtable: Professional Issues around Women, Work and Care
Sponsored by Women in French
NeMLA 2022
Baltimore, MD March 10-13

Chair: Anne Brancky

The pandemic has been especially catastrophic for working women and for those in precarious employment positions, including contingent faculty, the underemployed, low-wage workers and freelancers. This roundtable invites participants to explore professional issues that have been exacerbated or illuminated by the pandemic related to working conditions, dependent care, racial equity, pay, pedagogy, accessibility and accountability. How have we been called on to care for others? Where have we been stretched too thin? How can we establish mutual support? What can we learn from each other’s successes in making change at individual institutions? What might the future of the profession look like? What can we do to influence and shape this future? 

Topics may include: racial equity, caretaking, job precarity, online teaching, resources, parental and sick leave, sabbaticals, research, tenure, the review process, retirement, graduate school, stipends, funding, etc.

Please upload your proposed abstract (~250 words) to the NeMLA portal by September 30, 2021.

Contact Anne Brancky (anbrancky@vassar.edu) with any questions you might have.

Panel: Women and the Invisible Labor of CareWomen in French Panel
NeMLA 2022Baltimore, MD March 10-13

Deadline for Abstract Submissions: September 30, 2021

Chair: Anne Brancky

Session Description:

So much of the caretaking that makes the world turn falls into the category of “invisible labor” or “invisible work.” It is underpaid, ignored, maligned and marginalized. Yet many writers, thinkers and filmmakers have focused their attention on this essential but unseen labor of care. In her recent work, Françoise Vergès has emphasized capitalism’s fundamental reliance on the invisible cleaning and care work undertaken largely by women of color. “The cleaners’ invisibility,” she writes, “is required and naturalized.” This invisibility is duplicated in cultural representation. Feminist theorists like Janelle Hobson and bell hooks critique the absence and erasure of Black women in film and offer oppositional ways of looking that create new forms of agency. In her work, Assia Djebar has explored and exposed the invisible worlds of women in domestic spaces and of Europe’s obsession with visually penetrating those worlds. 

This panel seeks to direct our gaze to the unseen, invisible work of care undertaken by women in literature, film and other cultural artefacts. Who cares for whom? What kind of care is unseen? How do writers, artists and filmmakers draw our attention to these otherwise invisible responsibilities, charges, nourishments? What happens when light is shone on this work of care? How does it open to new perspectives, new approaches, new epistemologies? 

Please upload your proposed abstract (~250 words) to the NeMLA portal by September 30, 2021.

Contact Anne Brancky (anbrancky@vassar.edu) with any questions you might have.

See file attached below for full Call for Papers:

Appel Représentations et réceptions médiatiques d’écrivaines de langue française (19e-21e siècles).docx

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Nous sollicitons la participation de chercheur.e.s internationaux pour cette journée d’étude, qui aura lieu le 12 novembre 2021 sur Zoom. Les propositions (environ 300 mots) devront être accompagnées d’une brève notice bio-bibliographique et sont à envoyer avant le 15 août 2021 au comité organisateur (Mercédès Baillargeon, Maria Beliaeva Solomon et Elsa Courant-Bares) à l’adresse suivante: autricesetmedias@gmail.com. Les communications pourront être effectuées en français ou en anglais.  

Les propositions seront examinées par un comité de lecture qui inclut Mercédès Baillargeon (University of Maryland), Maria Beliaeva Solomon (University of Maryland), Elsa Courant-Bares (CNRS), Marie-Ève Thérenty (Université Montpellier 3) et Michèle Schaal (Iowa State University). Les réponses seront envoyées début septembre au plus tard.

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We are seeking the participation of international researchers for this study day, which will take place on November 12,  2021 via Zoom. Proposals (approximately 300 words) as well as a brief bio-bibliography,  must be sent to the organizing committee (Mercédès Baillargeon, Maria Beliaeva Solomon et Elsa Courant-Bares) before August 15, 2021 at the following email address: autricesetmedias@gmail.com. Papers may be presented in French or in English. 

The proposals will be reviewed by a scientific committee, which includes Mercédès Baillargeon (University of Maryland), Maria Beliaeva Solomon (University of Maryland), Elsa Courant-Bares (CNRS), Marie-Ève Thérenty (Université Montpellier 3) and Michèle Schaal (Iowa State University). Selected participants will be notified by early September at the latest.

For Whose Own Good?: French (Post-)Colonialism and Interdependence
(Baltimore, MD March 10-13)
Chair: Bethany Schiffman (University of California, Los Angeles)

Panel Abstract:

“C’est avec 76.900 hommes que la France assure la paix et les bienfaits de la civilisation à ses 60 millions d’Indigènes. ”

So reads a French colonial propaganda poster from the 1931 Exposition Coloniale. Indeed, throughout its long colonial history, France painted itself as bringer of good, enlightenment, health, and happiness to those “less fortunate” around the world. This is the essence of the mission civilisatrice. Of course, the lived reality of French colonial rule was far from caring. Rather, it was exploitative, essentializing, and violent. But it also undeniably created systems of interdependence that endure, not least of which is the lasting hegemony of the colonizer’s language. These systems affect everything from representation to (im)migration to questions of individual and national identity. Better understanding colonialism’s role in shaping our past and our present will help illuminate the complicated, ongoing power dynamics it created and the lasting ways in which it both facilitated and hindered caring and interdependency.

A range of topics facilitate a better understanding of these issues. What moments of caring, if any, were able to exist within the colonial system? How did it create networks of (inter)dependency? How do those networks continue to exist and evolve today? How do these relationships play out in cultural texts? How is cultural production used as a way to promote caring in this system, either retroactively through memory or by addressing remaining power differentials? What is the impact of (post)colonialism and systems of interdependency on the environment? This panel invites papers, in English or French, that unpack the historical and contemporary influences and impacts of colonialism on caring in the francophone world.

Description:

This panel invites papers in English or French that explore the past and present of the entanglement of French colonialism and caring, broadly defined. Possible topics include (but are not limited to) its presentation as a project of nurturing (la mission civilisatrice) to its creation of systems of interdependence that have lasting influences on questions of (im)migration, identity, and representation to its impact on the environment.

Please upload your proposed abstract (~250 words) to the NeMLA portal by September 30, 2021

New deadline: 30th of September 2021.

See attached file for full CFP: The Immersive Potential of Literature and Hybrid Media in the 20th and 21st Centuries Women in French Postgraduate_ECR International Symposium .docx

Proposals are welcome in both English and French.

Please send abstracts to wif.ecr.symposium@gmail.com. Individual papers will be 15-minutes long. All submissions should be accompanied by a short (100-word) biography of the presenter(s). Please ensure that your abstracts and biographies are included in the same document, that the title of this document includes your name, and that you specify the time zone that you will be presenting from:

- Individual proposals should be no more than 250 words

- Panel proposals should not exceed 1,000 words, and should include a brief description of the panel and of the individual papers included in the panel.

Australian Society for French Studies Conference 2021
8-10 December 2021
Un.sited: “Sites” in French Studies

Online conference

Hosted by the French Discipline, School of Language and Cultures
University of Queensland

We invite proposals - in French or in English - for:

• Individual research papers: presentations of 15 minutes, followed by 10 / 15 minutes of discussion.
• Panels: three x 15-minute papers, followed by discussion.
• Roundtable discussions: these might relate to research practice, to teaching practice, to language policy (for example).

As is the usual ASFS practice, we will consider proposals on topics other than the conference theme, within the constraints of the programme.

Proposals to be sent to https://forms.gle/7w3KejQN3J4FSwfP9 by 30 July 2021

See attached file for CFP: Australian Society for French Studies Conference 2021.docx